Brad Wright concentrates on prosecution, litigation and counseling in patent and copyright matters, especially in the electrical and computer areas, including Internet and e-commerce. He has drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications in such technologies as computer hardware and software, cable TV systems, electrical devices, facsimile systems, neural networks, smart cards, Internet applications, operating systems, computer games, business methods, mobile telephones, and video processing techniques. Brad has also won several appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. His litigation experience includes researching and drafting successful motions for summary judgment, intervention, and dismissal, as well as evidentiary issues. He has also successfully argued and briefed appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has also provided clients with infringement, validity and patentability opinions in numerous different technical areas. Additionally, Brad is experienced with protecting inventions overseas under patent treaties and conventions. Mr. Wright is a former law clerk to the Honorable William C. Bryson of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals in the United States. He earned his electrical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his law degree, with distinction, from George Mason University, where he graduated as the top student in the Patent Law Track and was a member of the Law Review. After earning his electrical engineering degree, Brad worked as an electrical engineer and software engineering manager for E-Systems, which is now part of Raytheon Corp. In that position, Brad developed novel algorithms relating to signal intelligence and specialized hardware, and worked on database projects including an object-oriented database.
Mr. Wright is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is admitted to the bars of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars. Brad is also active in the American Intellectual Property Law Association, where he co-chaired the Software Patent Subcommittee of the Emerging Technologies Committee. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Bar Association, where he chaired subcommittees relating to business method patents, patent litigation, and multimedia and interactive technology. Additionally, Brad has been an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, where he has taught copyright and patent law.
Mr. Wright was the President of the Patent Lawyers Club of Washington. He has published numerous articles and has given speeches before various organizations regarding intellectual property law.
Mr. Wright served as Editor-in-Chief and a chapter author of Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing, published by BNA Books in 2008. This book, the first of its kind, was written to help patent practitioners draft the broadest possible patent that can sustain a validity challenge by synthesizing and applying lessons from the case law.
Mr. Wright has earned an AV peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and was named one of the World's Leading IP Strategists by Intellectual Asset Management magazine.
Mr. Wright practices in the Washington, DC office of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Sample Articles and Publications
“Supreme Court Eases Test for Patentability in Bilski v. Kappos,” Intellectual Property Advisory (June 28, 2010)
“Developments in Patent Law 2009,” presented at The D.C. Bar’s 2009 IP Law Year in Review Series (December 18, 2009)
“Supreme Court Hears Argument in Bilski Case,” Intellectual Property Advisory (November 9, 2009)
“Supreme Court Grants Cert in Bilski Case,” Banner & Witcoff IP UPDATE (November 1, 2009)
“Federal Circuit Issues Split Decisions on PTO Continuation Rules,” Banner & Witcoff IP UPDATE (Spring/Summer 2009)
“Developments in Patent Law,” presented at The D.C. Bar Program on Developments in Intellectual Property Law (December 2008)
“End of the Road for E-Commerce Patents?,” E-Commerce Times (May 2008)
“Patents Under Attack,” Executive Counsel (June 2008)
“Federal Circuit May Clamp Down on Process Patents,” Intellectual Property Advisory (May 8, 2008).
“Patentable Subject Matter After Bilski”, BNA Webinar, July 8, 2010.
“The Use of Opinion of Counsel as Evidence in Patent Litigation”, ABA IPL Section's 25th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Arlington, VA, April 9, 2010.
“Recent Developments in IP Law”, John Marshall Law School's 54th Annual Conference on Developments in Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets Law in Chicago, IL, February 26, 2010.
“Recent Developments in Patent Law”, D.C. Bar’s 2009 IP Year in Review Series in Washington, DC, December 17, 2009.
“Developments in Patent Law, 2008”, D.C. Bar’s 2008 IP Year in Review Series Part II, in Washington, DC, December 10, 2008.
“New Practical Patent Strategies”, Virginia Information Technology Center in Waterford, VA, September 26, 2008.
